What are the four famous embroidery?

The four famous embroideries refer to Su embroidery, Hunan Xiang embroidery, Guangdong Yue embroidery and Sichuan Shu embroidery.

1, Su embroidery

Suzhou embroidery originated in Wuxian County, Suzhou, and now it has spread all over Wuxi and Changzhou. Embroidery is inseparable from sericulture and silk reeling, so embroidery is also called silk embroidery. In Qing Dynasty, Su embroidery, Xiang embroidery, Yue embroidery and Shu embroidery were established as the four famous embroideries in China.

2. Hunan Xiangxiu

Xiang Embroidery is one of the four famous embroideries in China, and it is the general name of Xiang Embroidery products with distinctive cultural characteristics of Hunan and Chu. It originated from Hunan folk embroidery, absorbed the advantages of Suzhou embroidery and Guangdong embroidery and developed, with a history of more than 2000 years.

3. Guangdong Cantonese embroidery

Guangdong embroidery is the general name of Guangdong embroidery and Chaozhou embroidery, and it is one of the four famous embroideries in China, which originated in the Tang Dynasty. Guang embroidery refers to embroidery in Guangzhou, Foshan, Nanhai, Panyu, Shunde, Dongguan, Baoan, Xiangshan and Taishan, and is the general name of folk embroidery skills in the Pearl River Delta region with Guangzhou as the center. Chaozhou embroidery originated in Chaozhou and is popular in today's Chaoshan areas, namely Shantou, Chaozhou and Jieyang.

4. Sichuan Shu embroidery

Shu embroidery has a long history, dating back to Sanxingdui civilization. Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it has been called "the treasure of Shu" with Shu brocade. Shu embroidery takes soft satin and colored silk as the main raw materials, and the stitches include 12 and 122. It has the characteristics of rigorous needling, uniform needling, rich varieties, vivid image and strong three-dimensional sense.

The difference between the four famous embroideries:

Xiang embroidery has a long history, which can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2000 years ago. Shu embroidery has a long history, dating back to Sanxingdui civilization. Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it has been called "the treasure of Shu" with Shu brocade. Guangdong embroidery originated in the Tang Dynasty and was brought to Lingnan by immigrants from the Central Plains. The technological level of Cantonese embroidery in Tang Dynasty is extraordinary. Suzhou embroidery has a history of more than 2,000 years. As early as the Three Kingdoms period, there were records about the production of Suzhou embroidery.

Xiang embroidery has its own characteristics, the main features are vivid image, lifelike and strong texture. It is based on the draft, with needles instead of pens and faint lines, and recreated on the basis of deliberately pursuing the original appearance of the draft. Shu embroidery is the first of the four famous embroideries. It is flexible and adaptable, and has the characteristics of rigorous stitches, bright stitches and bright colors.

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